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EARTHQUAKES!!!!!

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EARTHQUAKES!!!!!

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Some pretty good shaking going on this afternoon here in sunny Southern California.

A 6.9 in Baja California, Mexico was felt as far as Arizona, and it was the strongest earthquake I have ever felt. I'm in San Diego, and we had a few things fall over and off.

And it's been shaking from, I presume, related quakes spread across Southern CA during the past hour.

 

Pretty exciting!

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Moosetek13, reply 25
I guess it's a 50/50 chance whether all this activity in SoCal/Baja is either relieving the stress further north, or increasing it. But I sure would not want to be living in the Bay Area right now.

LA did not fare so well in 71.  At least not if you were on an interstate during rush hour (I was in school thankfully).

I agree, I do not see how this is good news for San Fran as it was not the San Andreas, but another fault, and probably just added stress to the San Andreas.

The reason this was relatively mild, damage wise, is there really are no tall structures in that part of the state.

Reply #27 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

This seems to be the year for large quakes.

7.7 off the coast of Sumatra.

 

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Reply #28 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

And 7.1 in China.

Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Star, reply 28
And 7.1 in China.

With over 400 and counting dead.  One does not think of Mexico as a "developed" nation, but it seems they have more on the ball than China does.

Reply #30 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I don't think it has as much to do with being more 'on the ball' as it does to being a sparsely populated area.

Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top

Relative to china?  Perhaps.  The epicenter was right outside Mexicali - population, over 1 million.  Tijuana is about 100 miles west of there, population, 3.5 million.  While the California side east of the mountains is sparsely populated, the Mexican side is very popular.

Reply #32 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

In the meantime the ashes spewn out by the volcano on iceland have wreaked havoc on northern and middle europe's air traffic. All airports in Scandinavia, Great Britain and parts of the Netherlands, Germany, France and Belgium are currently closed.

Anyone wanting to place bets where and when the next earthquake or major volcanic erruption occurs?

Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top

Anyone wanting to place bets where and when the next earthquake or major volcanic erruption occurs?

You have better odds playing PowerBall.

Reply #34 from Sins Forums Top

With over 400 and counting dead. One does not think of Mexico as a "developed" nation, but it seems they have more on the ball than China does.

Death toll is now over 1100.. There was also a small(4.6) quake in northwest u.s. today.